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Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 - 15:12 Makkah mean time-11-3-1437
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Lagos (IINA) – The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.
UNICEF said that over 2,000 schools are closed across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, while hundreds of others have been attacked, looted, or set on fire by Boko Haram extremists in their quest to create an independent Islamic state.
"The longer they stay out of school, the greater the risks of being abused, abducted and recruited by armed groups," UNICEF Regional Director of West and Central Africa Manuel Fontaine was quoted by AFP as saying.
According to UNICEF, as the Nigerian military wins back territory in the country's northeast, some schools have been able to reopen, yet many are overcrowded and lack the necessary supplies for children to learn.
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